Nehru Trust Awards

Nehru Trust Awards

The Trust aims to achieve its mission by making it possible for scholars and professionals from India and the UK to develop and share skills relevant to these subjects and to gain access to Indian cultural resources both in India and in the UK.

The Trust’s primary activity is an annual awards programme for individual scholars and museum professionals from both countries in order to enable them to study, carry out research or undertake training in both India and the UK. The awards programme is announced each autumn; awards are made in late March and must be taken up within the subsequent year (1 April to 31 March).

The Trust also administers grants on behalf of the V&A Jain Art Fund, and works in collaboration with the Charles Wallace India Trust with whom it offers an annual joint UK Visiting Fellowship.

 

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Nehru Trust Awards
Nitin Narhar Hadap

Survey, Documentation and study of Konkan woodwork art tradition

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
2012

I undertook this project soon after submission of my doctoral thesis to the Department of Archaeology, Deccan College, Pune in 2012. This award has helped me in conducting village to village survey of the wooden temple architecture that mostly belongs to 18th to 20th century. This is observed in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. The challenge was to document the wooden structure before its further deterioration by the weather and human encroachment (In this region a new concept, rather fad is spreading speedily which is harmful to the heritage structures.

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Aprajita Sharma

A photodocumentary study of Chinese Porcelain in India.

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
2012
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S. Udayakumar

Traditional Wisdom and current Perspective of Bronze Technology in Tamil Nadu; with special reference to Tanjore dist.

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
2012

This award was given to me when I was pursing my Ph.D. first year. It was very helpful me to be more articulate by photography and travelling to Tanjore and Mamallapuram to meet many sculptors. My documentation is first work with detail work on bronze technology through theoretical and practical aspects. This award is very helpful to also practise the bronze image making by myself, with the help of practices knowledge I could understand the complete technology of bronze image making.

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Soumi Sengupta

An archaeological investigation in the Tawa River Basin, Betul District, Karnataka

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
2012
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Sutapa Lahiri

Mature Harappan Architecture in Haryana: An Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspective

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
2012

My interest lies in the study of Harappan period, application of ethnoarchaeology for understanding the continuation of tradition, and paleo-anthropological studies. In Indian context the application of ethnographic observation becomes very important since there is an amalgamation of modern as well as primitive tradition living together.

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Kalyan Sekhar Chakraborty

The extraction and study of residues from Harappan pottery from the site of Kotada Bhadali, Bhuj District, and other sites in Gujarat.

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
2012
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Lahiri Sutapa Gita

The re-examination of material from the Harappan sites of Haryana, with reference to settlement archaeology, ethnoarcheology and paleo diet

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
2012
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Anjali Duhan

Nath Sadhus in Indian Paintings

Small Study and Research Grant (UK)
2012

The grant enabled me to refer to the visual imagery and textual sources of the Naths (both primary and secondary) present at British Library and SOAS. With this material in hand, I felt confident to cross the barrier of centuries and incorporate material also from Mughal and Pahari courts in my work which earlier only focused on the nineteenth century.

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Suchandra Ghosh

Buddhist votive tablets from South and South-East Asia in the collections of the British Museum, Oxford and Edinburgh.

UK Travel Award
2012
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Pankaj Sharma

Understanding processes and practices of Collection Management at the V&A

UK Travel Award
2012
Museum studies

The award gave me opportunity to understand the Collection Management System. It has enhanced my knowledge to adopt and create an effective collection management system in the museum where I am working. After coming back to India, I have given plans to adopt a proper collection management system, to undertake the digitization of the entire collection, re-organise the storage by using modern technologies, to undertake auditing and spot check of the collections.

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